Youth organizations as a battlefield in the Cold War

The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945-1960

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 168-191

  Kotek, Joël ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Centre Européen d Etudes sur la Shoah de l'Antisémitisme et du Génocide CEESAG   (Belgium)

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References (22)

1. This article consists of excerpts from my book Students and the Cold War (London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press 1996).
2. Sol Stern, 'A Short Account of International Student Politics & the Cold War with Particular Reference to the NSA, CIA, Etc', Ramparts 5/9 (March 1967) pp.29-38.
3. Appointment in Berlin, the glossy brochure prepared for the Festival, with many photographs (Berlin 1950) p.5.
4. Avant-Garde, 7-13 March 1951. For the impressive campaign in Italy, see Vincent R. Tortora, Communist Close-Up (New York: Exposition Press 1952).
5. Howard Jones, Acting Director, Berlin Element, HICOG, to Washington, NARA 800.4614/4-2051.
6. Avant-Garde, 4-10 July 1951.
7. The East Berlin Student and Youth Festival, June 1950, FO 975/51, p.8.
8. M. Buckingham, American Consulate, Berlin, to Washington, 17 Aug. 1951, NARA 800.4614/8-1751.
9. 'Two Weeks in August: East German Youth Strays West. Background', Office of Public Affairs, Department of State, Sept. 1951, p.9.
10. Charles S. Lewis (HICOG, Frankfurt) to Washington, Telegram 476, 14 Aug. 1951.
11. The Innsbruck Story (London 1951).
12. 'The square witnessed an immense ovation to honour the guide of all progressive humanity, the best friend of youth.... The message of greetings from German youth to Comrade Stalin carried 4,145,839 signatures', Avant-Garde, 17 Aug. 1951, p.3.
13. James C. Flint, President of the August Committee, who noted this incident in a 16-page report by one of the British participants, NARA 800.4614/10-2251.
14. The American National Archives hold about a dozen reports from HICOG, Berlin on its 'Efforts to counter Soviet intentions at the World Youth Festival in Berlin, August 5 to 19, 1951', NARA 800.4614/10-2251.
15. 'The result of the third World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and the Tasks for the Strengthening of the Unity of Youth in the Fight for Peace', report presented by Enrico Berlinguer, President of the WFDY, in Documents and Declaration of the 7th Annual Council Meeting of the WFDY, 21-24 Aug. 1951 (Budapest, 1952).
16. 'The Embassy could discreetly put to the Swedish Foreign Ministry the advantages that such a position might have for Sweden: prestige, and the possibility of a source of information for the Ministry.' telegram (signed Woodward) copy to the CIA, NARA 800.4614/5-1652.
17. Interview with Tom Braden, Washington DC, 16 Dec. 1988.
18. Interview with William Dentzer, New York, 22 Dec. 1988.
19. 'NSA: an insidious political pressure group', American Student, 1/10 (Dec. 1952) p.l.
20. John Ranelagh, The Agency. The Rise and Decline of the CIA (London: Sceptre Pocket Books 1987).
21. Interview with Cord Meyer, Washington, 18 Dec. 1988. See also his book Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA (New York: Harper & Row 1983) p. 101.
22. Gregory Treverton, Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention in the Post-War World (New York: Basic Books 1987) p.40.